Summary of interview: Lydia Cabasco discusses her work as People for Fair Trade/Network Opposed to WTO (PFT) staff organizer. She mobilized the student sector and people of color. She says she worked against the WTO after hearing a writer and activist from the Philippines speak on the IMF, GATT, and the Philippine sex trade. During WTO preparations, Cabasco says it was difficult to gain attention for people of color, especially women from Third World countries. Cabasco describes tensions between anti-WTO groups, including PFT/NO2WTO and the Legal Employment Law Office, her efforts to mobilize minority communities, her march with the student coalition on November 30, actions of police against the protesters, and her arrest.

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Summary of interview: Lydia Cabasco discusses her work as People for Fair Trade/Network Opposed to WTO (PFT) staff organizer. She mobilized the student sector and people of color. She says she worked against the WTO after hearing a writer and activist from the Philippines speak on the IMF, GATT, and the Philippine sex trade. During WTO preparations, Cabasco says it was difficult to gain attention for people of color, especially women from Third World countries. Cabasco describes tensions between anti-WTO groups, including PFT/NO2WTO and the Legal Employment Law Office, her efforts to mobilize minority communities, her march with the student coalition on November 30, actions of police against the protesters, and her arrest.